[Nursing training and changes of identity]

Over the last three decades, several European countries have implemented reforms to their nursing training systems. In French-speaking Switzerland, this training has been offered, since 2002, at university level in higher education institutions (Swiss university of applied sciences), while it is also taught to a higher level in graduate schools (Ecoles Supérieures) in German- and Italian-speaking Switzerland and, as of late, in just one French-speaking Swiss school. Some identity changes and tensions appear in the field for a number of reasons. The latter are also identified as being able to influence the professional development of nursing graduates of the Swiss university of applied sciences.